Dare fans hope the Indiana Pacers can clinch the Easter Conference semifinals? Columnist Bob Kravitz notes that, unlike at this time one year ago, “the Pacers played Game 4 like it was a must-win Game 7.” Maybe they’ll wrap up the best-of-seven series with a win in Game 5, Thursday in New York at 8 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board proposed lowering the legal limit for drunken driving to 0.05 from 0.08 blood-alcohol content. Since the legal limit was lowered in Indiana to 0.08 in 2001, the number of alcohol-related or drunken-driving accidents — and the number of deaths — in Indiana has decreased by more than 3 percent. But an official cautioned that besides the lowered limit, other factors also contributed: tougher enforcement and a focus on seat bets and other safety measures.

• Take a look at the graphic in today’s slideshow that compares how many drinks would put men and women of different body weights over the legal limits, under the current 0.08 standard and the proposed 0.05 limit. Some commenters on The Star’s Facebook page worried they would no longer be able to drink when dining out if the standards are toughened.

Since actress Angelina Jolie revealed her preventive double mastectomy in a New York Times oped on Tuesday, many have wondered whether her situation offers lessons for their own health. Dr. Gary Dunnington, chairman of the surgery department at Indiana University School of Medicine, spoke with The Star about the so-called BRCA genes, which increase a woman’s risk of developing both breast and ovarian cancer. Dunnington said that genetic testing is covered by most insurance plans for those who meet the criteria, as are the follow-up treatments.

• Like Angelina Jolie, Lyndsay Sheridan (left) chose life over her breasts. The mother of three told Shari Rudavsky: “Knowing I had a predisposition to a disease that could kill me would constantly be in the back of my mind. I didn’t want to live in the unknown.” Sheridan had the double mastectomy after learning her sister Jill Golightly had cancer; Sheridan and Golightly are BRCA positive while their other sister Amy Hilton is not.

This could be our hottest day of the year so far, Poteet says. But look at the row of thunderstorm icons in our graphic: Thursday will likely feature showers and storms, and the days after have a chance of those, too. The last time it was this warm was Sept. 6 of last year, Poteet says.

These 14-foot-wide rectangular colored areas (at 71st and Cross Key Drive on the Northwestside and 73rd and Spring Mill Road on the Far Northside) designate a space for bikes to pull in front of traffic at traffic lights. The goal is to cut down on bike-car collisions, increase visibility and to give bikers a head start when the light turns green. This depends, of course, on vehicles actually obeying the visual signal to give bikes some room.

The Indianapolis 500’s winner won’t stand as tall in victory lane as Dario Franchitti and his crew did in 2011 now that the platform on which the victorious car rests has been grounded. Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials will also change the two round infield scoreboards, installed in the 1960s, to video boards that can be seen from three angles. All Turn 3 infield parking has sold out for the May 26 race. A limited number of spaces remain for sale in the parking lot behind the north chute. Practice opens to the public again today at 10 a.m.

Want to buy a cold beer in Indiana? You’re in luck if you visit a bar, restaurant or package liquor store, but forget finding carry-out chilled brews at a grocery store, gas station, convenience store or pharmacy: it’s illegal. Considering the state’s hodgepodge of strict liquor laws still on the books, 80 years since Prohibition ended, it’s perhaps not surprising that this is the only state that restricts the sale of cold beer.

The Richmond-based group applied for tax-exempt status in 2011 and finally got a response in February 2012: a lengthy request for additional information. Ken Johnson, the group’s president, said he saw that as “profiling of our type of our organization so that we would not be able to carry out some of the things that we planned to do in the primaries and the general election.” Attorney General Eric Holder is likely to face aggressive questioning before a House panel today about the IRS’s actions, as well as the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press.

Both flavors marketed as "Gone Nutty!" have “a filling made with real peanut butter,” though one features chocolate frosting and the other is topped with sugar crystals. The breakfast foods giant hopes the new products lure more customers, though this traditionalist plans to stick with the frosted strawberry variety. Mmm, Pop-Tarts ...

The business-oriented social network has made several changes to its privacy policy and user agreement, including that its more than 200 million members cannot “create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.” Is this really a serious issue for them? One site claims that “prostitution, in fact, is a skill for which you can get endorsed on LinkedIn” -- -- though perhaps that experience is with catching or counseling offenders rather than offering such services. Wink, wink!